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As much progress as we think we've made with legislation, litigation and education, anti-Semitism still continues to be the No. 2 hate crime in the United States. You can't eliminate it, but you can try to keep a lid on it.


Abraham Foxman

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN If people see the Capitol going on, it is a sign we intend the Union shall go on.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN What has once happened, will invariably happen again, when the same circumstances which combined to ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I think very much of the people, as an old friend said he thought of woman. He said when he lost his...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Has it popular sovereignty not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to m...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to preve...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Gentlemen, suppose all the property you were worth was in gold, and you had put it in the hands of B...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I know that the LORD is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer th...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about hi...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Our cause, then, must be intrusted to, and conducted by, its own undoubted friendsthose whose hands ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN This is a world of compensation; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those w...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject any thing, is not whether it have any evil in it...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many y...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am superstitious. I have scarcely known a party, preceding an election, to call in help from the n...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I was on the abutment.
ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER I got off the abutment and walked towards my office.
ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER Yes, sir, I was in the processing room watching them actually process the film.
ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER Yes, sir, a patrol car came and took me down to a station where they were trying to develop films, b...
ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER Then I heard another shot which hit him right in the head, over here, and his head practically opene...
ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER I couldn't tell if any frames were removed. Seen as a whole it shows that I have seen. Seeing yo...
ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER He leaned about the same way in falling towards Jacqueline, forward, down towards the bottom of the ...
ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels.
ABRAHAM WHIPPLE I received orders from Congress to proceed to Charleston in South Carolina, for the purpose of Co...
ABRAHAM WHIPPLE The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus ...
ABRAHAM ROBINSON Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn ...
ABRAHAM POLONSKY You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
ABRAHAM POLONSKY If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.
ABRAHAM POLONSKY